The BPI – the UK record labels trade association that promotes British music – is delighted to announce the appointment of MJ Olaore to the newly-created role of BPI Chief Operating Officer.
 
Commencing 1st November and reporting to Chief Executive Geoff Taylor, MJ will be responsible for the BPI’s day-to-day operational and financial affairs and for the further development of its commercial activities.  She joins the BPI from leading independent market research company Firefish, where she has been Chief Operating Officer since 2011.
 
MJ will be introduced to BPI members and partners at the BPI’s 2016 AGM, Wednesday 7th September.
 
MJ grew up in Nigeria and Scotland, and studied law at Liverpool University before taking on her first role at Price Waterhouse in London.  MJ has since gone on to develop a distinguished and successful career in broadcast media and entertainment, rising to senior management positions at ITN, LBC Radio, Virgin Radio and its successor Absolute Radio, all the while developing a broad range of skills across advertising and sales, IT, broadcast engineering, facilities, legal, strategy and research, finance, and operations.  Please see Notes to Editors for more detailed biography and higher res photo.
 
MJ Olaore, incoming BPI Chief Operating Officer, comments: “I am delighted to be joining the BPI at such an exciting and interesting time for the organisation and the recorded music industry that it serves. I know that Geoff Taylor and Ged Doherty have ambitious plans to continue to develop the role of the BPI in promoting British music; I am looking forward to helping advance these, working with the whole BPI team to bring them to fruition. It is an amazing opportunity.”
 
Geoff Taylor, Chief Executive BPI & BRIT Awards, adds: “We welcome MJ to the BPI family and are confident that we will benefit hugely from her extensive senior level experience and from a broad range of skills honed across the media and entertainment sectors. We are absolutely committed to helping both independent and major labels in the UK to grasp the opportunities that the next few years will offer and to promoting their artists and their achievements at home and around the world. MJ’s arrival will enable us to pursue that agenda more effectively on behalf of our all our members.”